The Anti-Corruption Coalition of Civil Society Organizations of Armenia, represented by its Governing Board, expresses deep concern about the recent evident manifestations of pressure against civil society representatives. On October 31, 2024, among a group of individuals, law enforcement authorities detained well-known public figure, international expert, and law-abiding citizen Hovhannes Avetisyan on suspicion of illegal …
The Anti-Corruption Coalition of CSOs of Armenia (hereinafter – the Coalition) has studied the version of the “Draft of the New Code of Administrative Offenses (hereinafter – the CAO Draft) and draft laws on amendments and additions to related laws” (hereinafter – the Package of Drafts) posted on the official website of public discussions of …
The CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia (hereinafter referred to as the Coalition) expresses its concern over the continuous manifestations of the creeping behavior of corruption in the country, which occurs in the manifestations of legislative and administrative corruption. The Coalition has warned about this many times and noted that these actions clearly affect the corruption …
In March 2024, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the monitoring reports of the 5th Round Monitoring for the Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, and Ukraine, under the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN). The monitoring reports of the 5th round assessed the effectiveness of anti-corruption …
Statement of the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia about the result Armenia has recorded in the corruption perception index: The Corruption Perception Index 2023 was published on 30 January, 2024, where Armenia has improved its index by 1 point in 2023 and recorded some progress in the fight against corruption, scoring 47 out of 100 …
Emphasizing the role of anti-corruption education in the fight against corruption for years, the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia (hereinafter also the Coalition) announces the start of anti-corruption training for representatives of CSOs operating in Armenia, including CSOs that are members of the Coalition. If you want to get basic knowledge about the anti-corruption field, …
The CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia (hereinafter referred to as the Coalition), represented by the Governing Board of the Coalition, guided by the goals of its establishment and activity, considers it necessary to respond to the below-mentioned assessment by the RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, made at the Government Session on 23 November, 2023, regarding the …
On 31 January, 2023, the 2022 index of Corruption Perception Index (CPI) was published, where Armenia worsened its index by 3 points in 2022 and recorded another setback in the fight against corruption, getting only 42 out of 100 possible points, and ranking 63rd among 180 countries. Armenia shares this result with Romania. For comparison, …
The CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia, strongly condemning the blockade of the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor of the Republic of Artsakh (hereinafter referred to as Artsakh, Nagorno Karabakh) by a group of Azeri pseudo-environmental activists backed by the corrupt authoritarian government of the Republic of Azerbaijan (hereinafter referred to as Azerbaijan) since 12 December, 2022, emphasizes …
The CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia calls on the members of the Government of the Republic of Armenia not to approve and process the amendments and additions to the above-mentioned decisions of the Government of the Republic of Armenia posted for public discussion on the official Unified Website for Publication of Legal Acts’ Drafts of …